Fort King George and the Tobago Museum
Eighteenth-century British hill fort above Scarborough, with the Tobago Museum in its guard house.
Fort King George occupies the highest ground above Scarborough, about 130 metres over the harbour, and was built by the British between 1777 and 1779 and named after George III. Tobago changed hands repeatedly in this period: French forces took the fort in 1781 and renamed it Fort Castries, and it returned to British control in 1793. The site retains its stone walls and gun emplacements, a powder magazine, the officers' mess, a prison, a bell tank and a lighthouse of 1958, set among lawns and flowering trees.
The former Barrack Guard House holds the Tobago Museum, run under the Tobago House of Assembly. Its collections cover Amerindian pottery, tools and burial goods from sites across the island, military relics from the colonial garrison, maps, documents, coins and shells. A separate building on the site houses the Fine Arts Centre, used for exhibitions by Tobagonian artists. The terrace gives a wide view over Scarborough, Rockly Bay and the south-western coast.
Highlights
- Stone ramparts, gun emplacements and powder magazine of the 1770s
- Tobago Museum in the former Barrack Guard House
- Amerindian pottery and colonial military relics
- Wide views over Scarborough and Rockly Bay
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